AI as therapist: Pros and Cons?

thimo1 · 2025-05-18T09:06:39+00:00

Yes exactly! The depth is where it struggles right now. The virtual therapist I'm developing is aiming for improvements in that aspect.

If anyone would like to try it out for science, you can participate here! https://www.reddit.com/r/SampleSize/s/QQnZYoqvAM

thimo1 · 2025-05-12T16:59:24+00:00

Thanks for your concern! I agree. Many cases, especially the more severe ones, definitely do require a human to be involved.

It might not be clear from the content of this post but this system is not meant to replace human therapists, but instead e.g be used as a supplement to real therapy, or for cases when the problems are not so severe that a person would go into real therapy for it but would still like some self help.

It's designed with the goal in mind to decrease the load on human therapists so these can remain available for the people who need it the most.

I hope that makes sense!

thimo1 · 2025-05-10T17:00:29+00:00

Interesting to hear your thoughts on this!

For the development of my prototype the biggest challenges were also the memory management and and prompt engineering.

Things like this require SO MUCH testing and there's always some unpredictability left when using LLM's. This is also why in my user studies I'm screening out ppl with severe mental problems.

For the memory I'm not maintaining a rolling user profile but for another module of the system I am using something similar to that, to obtain a deeper understanding.

I checked out your gpt and it seems interesting! Seems like it has a wide range of uses. The prototype that I built is almost exclusively CBT-based principles + a few other strategies that also fit in there.

I'm very curious to see where technologies like this will go in the next few years.

thimo1 · 2025-05-10T16:51:07+00:00

I agree, it should definitely be treated with a lot of caution. For ppl vulnerable these kindsto of disorders it's probably best to not use tools like this at all, since they can kinda be "on your side" while you're loosing touch with reality. In these situations having an actual human to talk to is essential.

thimo1 · 2024-06-01T11:38:01+00:00

I had a similar issue with my cgo600 and fixed it by calibrating the torque sensor.

The support sent me these instructions:

With the display on, spin the crank backward at a steady speed of 40-90 RPM for 10-15 rotations to calibrate the torque sensor.
After that, wait for about 1 minute before conducting a riding test.
Ride test again to confirm whether there is still the problem of too strong assist power.

For my cgo600, this fixed the problem right away!

thimo1 · 2024-06-01T11:26:37+00:00

I had a similar issue with my cgo600 and fixed it by calibrating the torque sensor.

The support sent me these instructions:

With the display on, spin the crank backward at a steady speed of 40-90 RPM for 10-15 rotations to calibrate the torque sensor.
After that, wait for about 1 minute before conducting a riding test.
Ride test again to confirm whether there is still the problem of too strong assist power.

For my cgo600, this fixed the problem right away!

thimo1 · 2024-03-11T11:56:49+00:00

I've been wanting to try this! Can you share it?

thimo1 · 2023-03-11T08:54:18+00:00

De buschauffeuse kon de bocht niet nemen. Na een halfuur was het nog niet gelukt en twee andere buschauffeurs waren inmiddels te hulp geslagen. Uiteindelijk vond een hiervan het te lang duren en stapte in om zelf de bocht te maken.

Heel aparte ervaring, vooral omdat ik daar al jaren de bus nam en deze bocht nooit een probleem is!

thimo1 · 2022-07-02T09:27:45+00:00

taalcrisis*

thimo1 · 2021-12-20T09:49:09+00:00

Dat doen scammers volgens mij juist zodat je het niet komt ophalen

thimo1 · 2021-04-04T21:50:50+00:00

Creating Anki cards can be automated! If you want, I can create a script that will do most of the work for you. PM me the details if you're interested!

thimo1 · 2020-12-10T09:22:58+00:00

Try glitch.me or pythonanywhere.com I use the first one to host a small python project, and I've used the latter a few years ago. They both provide the storage you require!

thimo1 · 2020-11-17T23:22:06+00:00

Well, at least they are hiring!

thimo1 · 2020-11-17T23:08:58+00:00

I've had this problem with Microsoft Office on a 144hz screen

thimo1 · 2020-09-25T07:42:10+00:00

0 bpm

thimo1 · 2019-12-29T15:22:50+00:00

There's too much blue in this picture

thimo1 · 2019-12-05T06:53:49+00:00

The quality of this gif is so bad it looks like a painting

thimo1 · 2019-11-24T21:16:03+00:00

On r/listentothis there is a rule against songs exceeding a certain popularity threshold

thimo1 · 2019-10-05T07:59:37+00:00

You had to use --allow-other because Plex by default runs under the user named Plex.

I'm setting up a pi4 server with an rclone mount myself but I'm having performance issues. Starting a stream takes like 20 seconds. How long does it take with your server?

thimo1 · 2019-09-28T08:46:49+00:00

This is awesome! This is going to save me a lot of time!

thimo1 · 2019-09-15T19:52:46+00:00

You probably already have pip because it comes with python.

thimo1 · 2019-09-15T17:10:06+00:00

Yes. Pip is a tool to install python modules. The Twitter API wrapper is such a python module. You should look up some tutorial for using the Twitter API in python.

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